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CVE-2024-25062

Published: 4 February 2024

An issue was discovered in libxml2 before 2.11.7 and 2.12.x before 2.12.5. When using the XML Reader interface with DTD validation and XInclude expansion enabled, processing crafted XML documents can lead to an xmlValidatePopElement use-after-free.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
libxml2
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic
Released (2.9.4+dfsg1-6.1ubuntu1.9+esm1)
Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
focal
Released (2.9.10+dfsg-5ubuntu0.20.04.7)
jammy
Released (2.9.13+dfsg-1ubuntu0.4)
mantic
Released (2.9.14+dfsg-1.3ubuntu0.1)
trusty
Released (2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.13+esm6)
Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
upstream Needs triage

xenial
Released (2.9.3+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.7+esm6)
Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
Patches:
upstream: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/2b0aac140d739905c7848a42efc60bfe783a39b7
upstream: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/92721970884fcc13305cb8e23cdc5f0dd7667c2c

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H